The artwork for sale: €1000
— Set against a field of crimson and black, this composition radiates both brute force and elegance. A burst of white energy collides with a structure of bound forms, their metallic rigidity fractured by an act of painterly release. Scanavino’s world is one of oppositions — control and eruption, precision and passion — bound together by a meticulous sense of rhythm and structure.
The red background suggests intensity, emotion; yet within it, the artist orchestrates restraint. The fragmented forms appear almost skeletal, as if exposing the architecture of feeling itself. His language of knots, bars, and ruptures speaks to the complexity of human experience.
Here, abstraction becomes a site of psychological drama. Scanavino invites the viewer to confront the moment when clarity breaks apart into raw expression, where the gesture becomes both a cry and a reconstruction of silence.
Emilio Scanavino’s work evolved from figuration to a deeply personal abstract style marked by recurring symbols, especially the knotted or tangled line motif that became his visual signature. His paintings feature layers of gesture, linear patterns, and muted tones, often punctuated by expressive red markings.
